Panorama De Musique Concrete / Various Panorama De Musique Concrete / Various CD

Musique Concr?te is often confused with electronic music, which originated in Germany and which is concerned with the electronic manufacture of sounds built up from basic tones. Musique Concr?te makes use of real everyday sounds which are modified by tape manipulation and electronic treatment. From the late forties, the genres two leading exponents have been the French composers Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry. If their compositions seem quaint to today's ears, in 1948, their bizarre, brittle, often beautiful, soundscapes were revolutionary. Schaeffer and Henry began their revolt by recording sounds from the natural world onto phonograph discs, altering them through the primitive means available, and creating an alarming music that they dubbed musique concr?te Schaeffer and Henry created audio portraits for the end of the machine age and the beginning of the electronic age that burst with mechanical noises, orchestral hits, trains, and text-sound babble. Doors open and close on indecipherable conversations; engines start, stop and transform into screams and moans; disembodied pianists jam with mouth noise rhythm sections. Now, almost 60 years later, the scratches on the records they used give this vanguard work a charming, antique quality. Their methods may seem archaic by contemporary standards, but the resulting music is powerfully evocative by any standards. Apostles include Bill Nelson ('enviromental guitar'), Brian Eno and Holger Czukay. Out-of-print for decades, a PANORAMA OF MUSIQUE CONCR?TE is the movement's essential historic document. It comprises all of the classics of the genre, including the Veil of Orpheus, a cantata from Henry's 1953 'opera' Orpheus, Schaeffer's first musique concrete work 'Etude aux Chemins de Fer' (Railroad Study), an assemblage of sounds of train wheels, engines, and whistles, recorded at Batignolle Station and his Study for Whirlygigs, assembled with the aid of a child's whirlygig or spinning top. The original fifty minute edition of the Panorama is augmented by the first masterpiece of musique concr?te, Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul (Symphony for a Man Alone)

1. Bidule en Ut (Trifle in C) Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer 2. Batterie Fugace (Fleeting Percussion) Pierre Henry 3. Flte Mexicaine (Mexican Flute) Pierre Schaeffer 4. Tude Pour Piano (Study for Piano) Pierre Schaeffer 5. Final Du Concerto Des Ambiguits (Finale of the Concerto 6. Tam -Tam III Pierre Henry 7. Cinquime Mouvement (Fifth Movement) 8. Fte Foraine (Fun Fair) 9. Tude Aux Tourniquets (Study for Whirligigs) Pierre Schaeffer 10. Le Voile D'orphe (The Veil of Orpheus) Pierre Henry 11. Tude Aux Chemins de Fer (Railway Study) Pierre Schaeffer 12. Tude Pathtique (Study in Pathos) Pierre Schaeffer 13. Bote Musique (Musical Box) Philippe Arthuys 14. Antiphonie (Antiphony) (12 Pitches - 12 Durations - 12 15. Son Et Transposition Chromatique 16. Prosopope 1 17. Partitia 18. Valse 19. Erotica 20. Scherzo 21. Prosopope 2 22. Eroica 23. Apostrophe 24. Intermezzo 25. Cadence 26. Strette 27. L'oiseau Rai (R.A.I. Bird) Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry